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(Hellier) Brown, Gloria.
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Smith, Andrew, 1895-1970.
Smith, Violet, 1902-2002.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Veterans -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Biography.
Fishing villages -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- History -- 20th century.
Dildo (Trinity Bay, N.L.) -- Biography.
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(Hellier) Brown, Gloria.
Smith, Andrew, 1895-1970.
Smith, Violet, 1902-2002.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Veterans -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Biography.
Fishing villages -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- History -- 20th century.
Dildo (Trinity Bay, N.L.) -- Biography.
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and Violet : the story of my grandparents / Gloria (Hellier) Brown.
by
(Hellier) Brown, Gloria.
DRC Publishing, 2014.
Call #:
971.802 H477a
Subjects
Smith
,
Andrew
,
1895-1970
.
Smith
, Violet, 1902-2002.
World War, 1914-1918 -- Veterans -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Biography.
Fishing villages -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- History -- 20th century.
Dildo (Trinity Bay, N.L.) -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781926689746 (pbk.)
Description:
303 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Summary:
Gloria (Hellier) Brown writes about her grandparents,
Andrew
and Violet
Smith
of Dildo, a couple whose lives were typical of ouport Newfoundlanders in the early 1900s. In 1919,
Andrew
returned home from World War I a war hero. He went on to become renowned for harpooning horse mackerel, tending the sick and dying, and having an unbridled zest for life. He and Violet raised a family of ten children and Violet continued to make bread and knit tirgger mitts until she was in her 80s. She lived to her 100th year.
Andrew
and Violet survined the deaths of two sons and a daughter to Typhoid Fever. Gloria offers up a Newfoundland history lesson that is a tribute to her grandparents and the ultimate triumph of the human spirit.
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